Federal Emergency Management Agency personnel who signed an open letter criticizing President Donald Trump’s cuts to disaster funding have been interrogated in recent weeks in an effort to determine the names of colleagues who endorsed the letter anonymously or distributed it, according to people familiar with the investigation and documents reviewed by Bloomberg News. The post Bloomberg: FEMA Tells Staff to Name Whistleblowers or Risk Losing Jobs appeared first on Government Accountability...| Government Accountability Project
The Monday appointment of Frank Bisignano, known for his Wall Street acumen and as an ally to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, as the new IRS CEO is raising concerns about how the agencies will handle taxpayer data between the two of them and other agencies as the Trump administration pushes hard on its priorities. Data handling at the IRS and at the Social Security Administration since President Donald Trump took office has already been a source of controversy, too. The po...| Government Accountability Project
Congressional Democrats also introduced legislation that would allow federal employees to file appeals in a civil court if the Merit Systems Protection Board is backlogged. The post Government Executive: Federal employee appeals board gets quorum after Senate confirms new member appeared first on Government Accountability Project.| Government Accountability Project
Police are investigating a fire that burned down the home of South Carolina Circuit Court judge Diane Goodstein, who had reportedly received death threats for weeks related to her work. The post TIME Magazine: Investigation ‘Ongoing’ After House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Burns Down appeared first on Government Accountability Project.| Government Accountability Project
Legal challenges, including a separate federal lawsuit brought by nonprofits, could take months, at best. In the meantime, oversight advocates worry their absence could exacerbate conditions in detention. The post NPR: Civil rights jobs have been cut. Those ex-workers warn of ICE detention violations appeared first on Government Accountability Project.| Government Accountability Project
A federal judge agreed Monday to temporarily suspend the Trump administration’s plan to eliminate hundreds of jobs at the agency that oversees Voice of America, the government-funded broadcaster founded to counter Nazi propaganda during World War II. The post Associated Press: Judge suspends Trump administration’s plan to eliminate hundreds of Voice of America jobs appeared first on Government Accountability Project.| Government Accountability Project
A report issued Thursday accuses the Department of Government Efficiency of putting millions of Americans’ personal information in an unsecured cloud server.| Government Accountability Project
“This report concludes that DOGE is jeopardizing Americans’ most sensitive data, while its employees operate under a layer of secrecy that shields them from meaningful oversight and accountability,” the report’s authors wrote. The post New York Times: Democratic Report Says Disorder at DOGE Jeopardized Americans’ Data appeared first on Government Accountability Project.| Government Accountability Project
There’s some good news related to the Trump administration’s concerted attack on the Social Security Administration: Thus far, it doesn’t appear to have significantly affected the delivery of benefits. Checks are still going out and payments into beneficiaries’ bank accounts are still arriving on time. Beyond that, however, the system is going to hell.| Government Accountability Project
The chair of the Finance Committee sent the agency a letter inquiring about allegations that it had put the confidential personal information of Americans at risk.| Government Accountability Project
The letter led by the Government Accountability Project asks for an investigation to be launched and once completed, "find that DHS has illegally retaliated against the FEMA whistleblowers and order immediate corrective action," including fully reinstating each worker to their jobs.| Government Accountability Project
DOGE's actions have effectively created "a live copy of the entire country’s Social Security information," lawyers for chief data officer Charles Borges alleged in the Aug. 26 complaint, which contends the information is on a server that lacks security oversight and a way to track who has accessed the data.| Government Accountability Project
Whistleblower Charles Borges, who worked as the chief data officer at the Social Security Administration since January, said the potential sensitive information that risks being released includes health diagnoses, income, banking information, familial relationships and personal biographic data.| Government Accountability Project
The top data official from the Social Security Administration is warning that the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency has put the Social Security information of more than 300 million Americans at risk of exposure to malicious actors.| Government Accountability Project
A whistleblower accused officials tied to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) of putting the personal details of hundreds of millions of Americans at risk by uploading the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) most sensitive database into a “vulnerable” cloud server.| Government Accountability Project
